English (Reading)

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  • Reading Methods: The page offers four main methods used to teach students how to read.

  • English Short Stories: The site offers you some short stories in English, with vocabulary explanations. They are simple short stories that will help you learn new English vocabulary.Remember that you can double click any word for the Spanish translation or the definition in English.

  • Ordering Texts: An activity to carry out in class in which students have to order text cuts.

  • IT'S MAGAZINE: its-online is the perfect resource for teachers who want to keep in touch with what is happening in the world of English teaching and find topical classroom activities that will motivate their students.

  • Online Newspapers: Listing of 10000 newspapers from around the world, searchable by country and then by publication.

  • Simple English News: It helps students improve their English skills by providing easy versions of current news stories on a wide range of topics including: science and technology, entertainment, world news, sports, and more.


  • Short Stories: A databe of short stories. If you want to check or to test your reading click here and use the worksheets with excerpts and questions from the stories.

  • Rong-Shang: Short stories for ESL learners with vocabulary and activities.


  • Reading Page: A web page with access to graded stories with exercises.

  • Breaking News English: English news lessons: Free EFL/ESL lesson plans, handouts and podcast for teaching current events and current affairs lessons, and business English.

  • English Story Reading Room: A place to improve your reading skills. It contains the following sections: 1. News Headlines; 2. Short English Stories; 3. Long English Stories; 4. Classic Engliah Stories; 5. Dictionary Asssisted Reading Tool; 6. Hpw to teach Reading?; 7. Help.


  • Speed Reading Test: Free speed reading online test. Read a text, then answer the quiz. Instant results for reading speed and comprehension level.

  • TurboRead Speed Reading: Speed reading, comprehension improvement, memory techniques, mind mapping, study methods and exam tips, office reading and computer screens.


  • ESLreading: Free graded reading materials for English language learners. With interactive activities, including crosswords, quizzes and a guide to readers.

  • English Reading Comprehension: This site offer you a variety of texts on various interesting subjects. You can practice reading comprehension and at the same time you will certainly learn something new. Each text is identified with an icon showing the level of English used on it. You will also find some questions to answer at the end of some texts to test your comprehension. Remember that you can double click any word for the Spanish translation or the definition in English.

  • Improving ESl Reading Skills: This article focuses on prior knowledge which is activated even before learners start reading the text, as part of Pre-Reading Activities.


  • Teflbootcamp: Teaching Reading in the EFL classroom. Ideas and exercises related tio teaching the reading skills of surveyimng, skimming, scanning, inference, predicting, and guessing.

  • Comics: A site with comic strips and funny pages.

  • Eurotales: Eight European schools collaborating as part of a Comenius partnership to share folk tales and storytelling in English and their own languages.

  • Reading & Audio Texts: This site offers two types of resources: 1. 'Reading': texts with reading comprehension activities, the answers and a Spanish translation of the texts. 2. 'Audio Texts': you can read and listen to the texts.


  • Reading Skills: Written by Jackie McAvoy, these lesson plans include tips for teaching and learning reading.

  • RIF (Reading is fun): Read along with stories and sing along with songs. It's for children, but the stories are fun (requires Flash).

  • Starfall: A free website to teach children to read. Perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. Contains exciting interactive books and phonics games.


  • Jokes for teachers: Your complete online resource for 'school and classroom' jokes. Our goal is to bring some light-hearted humor into our teaching lives.

  • ESLgold: Interesting materials for reading.

  • ESLfast: 365 ESL short stories with vocabulary, crossword, keys and dictations.

  • Short stories: Large online library of short stories for every reader of all ages with monthly features and additions. Classics and new writing - includes summaries, biographies and analysis. Their best feature is that their stories are classified in specific categories such as such as horror, crime, romance and even fairy tales.You can have them completely free of charge. One of the features which is available, is that they provide you with a printable version.

  • UK Newspapers: All national and regional UK newspapers publishing online, plus news portals, magazines and TV / Radio news sites.


  • ESLreading: Free graded reading materials for EFL & ESL students and teachers.

  • Britanniajuniors: Short stories to read in class. You may also build reading comprehension for the stories.

  • Danspalding: Here are 100 stories written for English Language Learners. They're all written in simple English and (mostly) fit on one page. These stories are clear, interesting, and meaningful to students' lives. They also have content and critical thinking questions for students to answer, on their own in writing or in conversation with one another. You're encouraged to change them to match your students and your class.

  • BBC Poems: A selection of poems you can read or hear, or even print. There some activities about the poems.

  • Oh and Ah: A free online e-story for early readers. Children can "read/listen" by mousing over the words.

  • Magickeys: Illustrated online children's stories for kids of all ages.

  • Story Book Castle: Dozens of fairy tales in many languages, colouring books and educational activities.



  • The Story Place: It is a digital library where you can find English and Spanish stories with audio and written text, organized by age and topics.